Need a listing of everything you've got in a Windows folder? You could grab screenshots, but that's a pain when there are lots of files. A quick command line trick gives you an easily printable directory of contents.

The Online Tech Tips help blog points out a command line trick that makes Windows dump the contents of any folder into a text file of your choosing. If you're handy with a command line, all you need to do is launch the command prompt as an administrator, navigate to the folder/directory you want a file listing of, then enter this command:

dir> contents.txt

The result is a contents.txt file in that directory with your print-friendly listing. You can name it whatever you'd like, of course. If you need a little more help launching your terminal and getting to where you're going, hit the link for the full instructions. While the tutorial is purportedly for Windows 7, it appears the dir> command works for most versions of Windows you'd be running today. And for a more robust option that adds right-click printing to any Windows folder, Microsoft has a tutorial.